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What were The Wombles?

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  • #32
    Beasty
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    LiamMc wrote: »
    Didn't Enya use the name of one of the characters for one of her songs?
    They are linked by the river Orinoco
    Orinoco the womble was named after the river Orinoco
    The song was called Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)


  • #33
    LiamMc
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    Beasty wrote: »
    They are linked by the river Orinoco
    Orinoco the womble was named after the river Orinoco
    The song was called Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)

    I just took for granted that was his surname.
    Uncle Bulgaria or maybe the French cook will have the answer.


  • #34
    BluesBerry
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    The wombles were glorified bin men


  • #35
    marwelie
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombles

    I loved the Wombles as a kid, I'm reliably informed that my mother brought me to see them in the cinema opposite Crumlin Hospital (think it was an ice rink at one stage and then a bingo hall) about a million years ago.


  • #36
    bnt
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    opinion guy wrote: »
    The result of some serious drugs methinks like most other kids shows back then....
    The Wombles were fairly tame compared to some others of the time. Case in point: the Clangers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyjBUoCnKM

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  • #37
    Voltex
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    They were hippies off their pallets on something....living in a field...eating rubbish.


  • #38
    Beasty
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    bnt wrote: »
    The Wombles were fairly tame compared to some others of the time. Case in point: the Clangers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyjBUoCnKM
    Much preferred the Clangers myself (which was an offshoot of the classic Noggin the Nog)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI


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